OCT 28 - 29, 2026
UGANDA
( SPEAKER )
Abid Jamil
Engineering Manager @ Gathern | Scaling Startups & Building High-Performance Teams | Speaker | Building in Public | Community Builder
( About the speaker )
Abid Jamil is an Engineering Manager at Gathern, where he leads teams across growth, fintech, and payments while driving product modernization and engineering excellence.
With more than 10 years of experience, he has built and scaled products across travel, fintech, e-commerce, q-commerce, logistics, classifieds, fitness, and education. His expertise spans engineering leadership, mobile and web development, cloud platforms, system design, DevOps, and performance engineering.
Throughout his career, Abid has helped organizations scale products, modernize architectures, improve engineering practices, and build high-performing teams. He is particularly passionate about turning complex technical challenges into measurable business outcomes through customer-centric thinking, strong ownership, and data-informed execution.
Abid is an international speaker, former university lecturer, and author of 18+ research publications. He has spoken at Droidcon, DevFest, and AWS Community Day, and other reputed venues, sharing practical lessons from real production systems, not just theory. His talks explore mobile performance, system design, engineering maturity, AI-assisted development, and building reliable products at scale.
( Session )
Mastering Android Performance: Benchmarks, Baselines & Beyond
This session will provide an in-depth exploration of practical strategies to enhance the performance of your Android app. We will take a systematic approach, starting with evaluating the current state of your app's performance through macro and microbenchmarking, and then moving towards automating this performance evaluation within your CI pipeline. The session's primary focus will be on integrating baseline profiles, a powerful technique that can boost your app's performance by up to 40%.
Detailed Outline & Key Takeaways:
Profile Guided Optimization: Learn how to optimize your app's performance by guiding the compiler with real-world usage data.
Cloud Profiling: Explore cloud-based tools for profiling your app, enabling you to monitor performance remotely.
Macro Benchmarking: Assess your app's overall performance through high-level benchmarks to identify broad areas for improvement.
Micro Benchmarking: Dive into specific components of your app to measure and enhance performance at a granular level.
Baseline Profiling: Integrate baseline profiles to reduce app startup time and improve runtime efficiency, potentially boosting performance by up to 40%.
Performance Monitoring & Testing: Implement continuous monitoring and automated testing processes to maintain and improve app performance over time.